Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If there 's bandits along any of these sections , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll skip 'em and you can tack on the extra mileage by walking round Kano a few times . ’
2 Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final .
3 In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth .
4 ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn .
5 The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’
6 He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait .
7 In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over .
8 At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey .
9 He should really start thinking about double-checking a few things .
10 The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier .
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